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Book Muddied Waters

    Book Details:
  • Author : P. Boomgaard
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2021-10-01
  • ISBN : 9004454349
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Muddied Waters written by P. Boomgaard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history of human interaction with forest and marine ecosystems in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Rainforests falling to snarling chainsaws, and factory trawlers emptying the life out of tropical seas, are nowadays among the most familiar images of Southeast Asia. Yet the present excessive levels of logging and fishing have emerged only within the last generation. Until a few decades ago it was common for marine and forest-related economic activities in Southeast Asia to have limited, and in the long run rather stable, effects on the environment. Did this relative stability simply reflect lower population densities, less well developed markets, and less efficient extraction technologies? Or was it the result of successful resource management techniques and institutions? If so, why have these since failed or been abandoned? Seventeen contributions by an international selection of expert authors cover topics ranging from the collection of rattan, beeswax and forest resins in the seventeenth century to the management of modern marine nature reserves. Muddied waters is essential reading for anyone interested in the environmental history of Southeast Asia, whether in connection with other aspects of this particular region, or in relation to patterns of environmental change and resource management in other parts of the world.

Book Marine Resources

Download or read book Marine Resources written by Max Falque and published by JAI Press(NY). This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 70% of the planet Earth is covered by oceans where property rights are poorly defined and enforced. Since ocean resources are fully exploited (because of new technologies and population growth), conventional regulatory methods (command and control) have failed to prevent pervasive overexploitation and conflicts. Some places are more or less considered as dumping sites and / or overexploited. The ancient and numerous regulations have generally failed to address growing pressures on fish and other ecological resources. Of course the idea of 'fencing the oceans' may appear improbable but for ages private, often comon property, institutions have succeeded in regulating fishing activities. Today 'individual transferrable quotas' may pave the way for rationalizing uses, conserving natural resources and reducing conflicts...or maybe not.

Book The View from Airlie

Download or read book The View from Airlie written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Institutional Analysis of Sasi Laut in Maluku  Indonesia

Download or read book An Institutional Analysis of Sasi Laut in Maluku Indonesia written by and published by WorldFish. This book was released on 2001 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides an understanding of the extent and functioning of community based coastal resource management systems in Maluku province, Indonesia and suggests recommendations for national, provincial and village government to support, maintain and develop effective traditional and indigenous resource management institutions. The study has shown that the Sasi Laut has benefits that can be used as a basis for building local level management institutions.

Book Collaborative and Community based Management of Coral Reefs

Download or read book Collaborative and Community based Management of Coral Reefs written by Alan T. White and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how effective coral reef management is achieved only with the participation, cooperation, sensitivity, and commitment of the community.

Book Fishers of Garogos

Download or read book Fishers of Garogos written by Hermien L. Soselisa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garogos is a small sand island barely rising above the sea off the eastern end of the large central Maluku Island of Seram. Unable to sustain agriculture, its 300-odd inhabitants are necessarily specialist fishermen. On the basis of her field-work in 1993 Hermien Soselisa paints a vivid picture of the precarious existence of the islanders as they struggle to secure their livelihood in the face of economic and ecological uncertainties.In Garagos, virtually everyone is a fisherman, exploiting a wide variety of marine resources, from shellfish and seaweed to sea slugs and deep ocean sharks. The sea provides food for daily subsistence as well as fish and other resources used in exchange for the products of agricultural communities in nearby islands. The Garogos islanders also depend upon the sale of their catch to earn money to buy other necessities of life.Soselisa provides insights into the customary marine tenure rights claimed by islanders, their varied strategies of dealing with the problems of meeting the subsistence needs of the household and the vagaries of the commercial market for sea resources. She also explores the sustainability of fishing in the face of market pressures and the depredations of commercial operations within the customary domain of Garogos islanders.The book is a valuable case study of an isolated and impoverished community that is nonetheless dependent upon the outside world for its very existence. This work adds to our understanding of artisanal fishing communities and indigenous systems of natural resource management in general as well as to our knowledge of eastern Indonesia in particular.The author, Hermien L Soselisa, is an anthropologist with the Maluku Studies Centre at Pattimura University in Ambon, eastern Indonesia. She is a graduate of Gadja Mada University and gained an MA degree in Anthropology from the Northern Territory University in Darwin. She also holds a PhD from the Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University). Hermien is the author of a number of articles and chapters on natural resource management. The manuscript for this book was completed while she was a Research Associate of the Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management at Northern Territory University.

Book Selling the Sea  Fishing for Power

Download or read book Selling the Sea Fishing for Power written by Adhuri and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indonesia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Library of Congress. Federal Research Division
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book Indonesia written by Library of Congress. Federal Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, politics, customs, etc. of India.

Book Reviews of National Policies for Education Education in Indonesia Rising to the Challenge

Download or read book Reviews of National Policies for Education Education in Indonesia Rising to the Challenge written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides guidance on how Indonesia can consolidate gains in access to basic education and develop an education system that will support an economy in transition towards high-income status.

Book Environment  Trade and Society in Southeast Asia

Download or read book Environment Trade and Society in Southeast Asia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelistic political structures, periodic tectonic and climatic disasters, ethnic occupational specializations, long cycles of economic globalization and deglobalization. Their contributions range across many centuries: from the Austronesian expansion to the Aceh tsunami, and from the Sanskrit cosmopolis to the Asian financial crisis. The book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Peter Boomgaard, a scholar whose work has embodied the Braudelian spirit in Southeast Asian historiography. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access.

Book Reflections on the Heart of Borneo

Download or read book Reflections on the Heart of Borneo written by Gerard A. Persoon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collective Memory and Dutch East Indiehb

Download or read book Collective Memory and Dutch East Indiehb written by DOOLAN and published by Heritage and Memory Studies. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary approach and applying several theoretical frames from literary studies, sociology, cultural anthropology and film theory, the author reveals how mediated memories contributed to a process of what he calls "unremembering." He analyses in detail a broad variety of sources, including novels, films, documentaries, radio interviews, memoires and historical studies, to reveal how five decades of representing and remembering decolonization fed into an unremembering by which some key notions were silenced or ignored. The author concludes that historians, or the historical guild, bear much responsibility for the unremembering of decolonization in Dutch collective memory.

Book Plumes from Paradise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela Swadling
  • Publisher : Sydney University Press
  • Release : 2019-12
  • ISBN : 1743325460
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Plumes from Paradise written by Pamela Swadling and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted outsiders for at least 5000 years: spices, aromatic woods and barks, resins, plumes, sea slugs, shells and pearls all brought traders from distant markets. Among the most sought-after was the bird of paradise. Their magnificent plumes bedecked the hats of fashion-conscious women in Europe and America, provided regalia for the Kings of Nepal, and decorated the headdresses of Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire. Plumes from Paradise tells the story of this interaction, and of the economic, political, social and cultural consequence for the island's inhabitants. It traces 400 years of economic and political history, culminating in the 'plume boom' of the early part of the 20th century, when an unprecedented number of outsiders flocked to the island's coasts and hinterlands. The story teems with the variety of people involved: New Guineans, Indonesians, Chinese, Europeans, hunters, traders, natural historians and their collectors, officials, missionaries, planters, miners, adventurers of every kind. In the wings were the conservationists, whose efforts brought the slaughter of the plume boom to an end and ushered in an era of comparative isolation for the island that lasted until World War II.

Book Fertility  Food and Fever

Download or read book Fertility Food and Fever written by David E.F. Henley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining historical geography with historical demography, and conceived as a study in environmental history, this book examines the long-term relationship between population, economy and environment in the northern half of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Using a rich variety of Dutch historical sources, including VOC and missionary archives, it attempts to reconstruct and analyse patterns of demographic, economic and landscape change throughout this large and ecologically diverse region over a period of almost three and a half centuries. Particular attention is given to the articulation between demographic and economic growth, to levels and determinants of reproductive fertility, to changing disease environments, and to the question of agricultural sustainability and its preconditions. The results call into question some common views regarding the reasons for low population growth, and the relationship between population density and landscape change, in the Southeast Asian past.

Book Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science written by John Gunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 1971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science contains 350 alphabetically arranged entries. The topics include cave and karst geoscience, cave archaeology and human use of caves, art in caves, hydrology and groundwater, cave and karst history, and conservation and management. The Encyclopedia is extensively illustrated with photographs, maps, diagrams, and tables, and has thematic content lists and a comprehensive index to facilitate searching and browsing.

Book The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics

Download or read book The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics written by Jamie Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indonesian term adat means ‘custom’ or ‘tradition’, and carries connotations of sedate order and harmony. Yet in recent years it has suddenly become associated with activism, protest and violence. This book investigates the revival of adat in Indonesian politics, identifying its origins, the historical factors that have conditioned it and the reasons behind its recent blossoming. It considers whether the adat revival is a constructive contribution to Indonesia’s new political pluralism or a divisive, dangerous and reactionary force, and examines the implications for the development of democracy, human rights, civility and political stability. The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics provides detailed coverage of the growing significance of adat in Indonesian politics. It is an important resource for anyone seeking to understand the contemporary Indonesian political landscape.